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Some of Æsop's fables : with modern instances / shewn in designs by Randolph Caldecott ; from new translations by Alfred Caldecott, M.A. ; the engravings by J.D. Cooper.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Standardized Title:
- Aesop's fables. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Fables.
- English wit and humor, Pictorial.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iii unnumbered pages, 79 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Macmillan and Company, 1883.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Bound in tan cloth, stamped in brown.
- "Sixteen of these twenty fables have been handed down to us in a Greek form : for these Halm's text has been used. As to the other four -- Number IX. is from Phaedrus, and retains a flavour of artificiality ; Numbers XIII. and XX. are from Latin versions ; and Number X. is from a French one."--Note, page [iii].
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- OCLC:
- 879557211
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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